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When it came time to upgrade
their server technology, the
Merchant-Accounts.ca team
learned that their hosting
provider had shifted focus to
enterprise-sized clients and
increased their pricing to match.
These increased costs meant
either not upgrading, or losing
out on a large portion of profits in
order to pay the new rates.
HOW LIQUID WEB HELPED
The Most Helpful Humans in
Hosting
TM
delivered upgraded
inf rastructure and helped
migrate the team members
to cPanel, offering easier
maintenance and administration
of computing resources without
breaking the budget.
"Just hums along seamlessly
in the background"
Merchant-Accounts.ca Right-Sizes Hosting
Thanks to Liquid Web's SMB-Friendly Offering
Small and medium-sized businesses that sell online
quickly realize that one of the benefits of eCommerce
lies in its ability to help them reach new customers
in global markets. No one knows this better than
David Goodale, the CEO of Merchant-Accounts.ca.
David founded Merchant-Accounts.ca back in 2001
to help address a vital gap in the market. At the time,
the large banks in Canada were reluctant to work
with small businesses, often requiring them to pay
large upf ront fees to mitigate the bank's risk. This
effectively prevented most Canadian small businesses
f rom being able to accept payments online. So, David
launched his company to fix that problem, and in the
process has helped thousands of businesses sell online.
Over time more Canadian businesses started finding
new customers in new international markets around the
world. Merchant-Accounts.ca started to provide global
payment solutions that would help businesses sell
anywhere in the world and in a variety of different
currencies. As word began to spread about the
company's expertise in global payment services,
something interesting started to happen to David's
business. Merchant-Accounts.ca started attracting
international business themselves f rom merchants f rom